January 08, 2025
Willis Has to Pay
Timothy Birdnow
Justice is starting to be served hot and spicy!
Court orders Fani Willis to pay $22,000 in legal fees to Judicial Watch.
Justice is starting to be served hot and spicy!
Court orders Fani Willis to pay $22,000 in legal fees to Judicial Watch.
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Watch 'em Squirm!
Timothy Birdnow
To illustrate how the media has absolutely no understanding of Donald Trump (and probably willfully so) one need but look at this Yahoo News article. In it the author takes everything Trump has said, no matter how tongue-in-cheek, seriously.
Here's the part that gets me:
And they really believe Trump isn't joking? Come on! If Trump were so crazy he wouldn't be where he is today.
It was observed during Trump's first term that the media took what he said literally all the time when normal Americans understood the joke.
Trump has been trolling Canada to get them to reverse some of their more aggregious policies and this seems to have touched a nerve - not with the average Canadian but with the Canadian ruling class and with the media. OF COURSE he's going to keep at this! He's having a great time punking them.
I have no doubt Trump would like to take back the Panama Canal, and possibly buy Greenland. He won't get Greenland I do not think (never say never) but he might get the canal out of the hands of the Chicoms anyway. But none of the rest of this will fly and Trump is no fool; he knows it. He's just having fun and at the same time doing what he does, namely being unpredictablle and making those he is negotiating with nervous.
I really don't know if the average news flunky understands this about Trump. I'm sure the top guys do but it serves their purposes to pretend to be obtuse.
Anyway it's fun watching them squirm.
To illustrate how the media has absolutely no understanding of Donald Trump (and probably willfully so) one need but look at this Yahoo News article. In it the author takes everything Trump has said, no matter how tongue-in-cheek, seriously.
Here's the part that gets me:
"Trump said he "liked” Carter "as a man” but was "strongly against” the former president’s decision to relinquish control.
Even as he flirted with a U.S. takeover of Canada, Trump weighed in with who he thinks should take over as the country’s next prime minister, with Justin Trudeau stepping aside, saying he suggested to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky that he should toss his hat into the ring.
In Trump’s retelling of the conversation between the two men, Gretzky replied by asking whether he’d be running for prime minister — or governor.
"Let’s make it governor,” Trump told him. "I like it better.”
Even as he flirted with a U.S. takeover of Canada, Trump weighed in with who he thinks should take over as the country’s next prime minister, with Justin Trudeau stepping aside, saying he suggested to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky that he should toss his hat into the ring.
In Trump’s retelling of the conversation between the two men, Gretzky replied by asking whether he’d be running for prime minister — or governor.
"Let’s make it governor,” Trump told him. "I like it better.”
And they really believe Trump isn't joking? Come on! If Trump were so crazy he wouldn't be where he is today.
It was observed during Trump's first term that the media took what he said literally all the time when normal Americans understood the joke.
Trump has been trolling Canada to get them to reverse some of their more aggregious policies and this seems to have touched a nerve - not with the average Canadian but with the Canadian ruling class and with the media. OF COURSE he's going to keep at this! He's having a great time punking them.
I have no doubt Trump would like to take back the Panama Canal, and possibly buy Greenland. He won't get Greenland I do not think (never say never) but he might get the canal out of the hands of the Chicoms anyway. But none of the rest of this will fly and Trump is no fool; he knows it. He's just having fun and at the same time doing what he does, namely being unpredictablle and making those he is negotiating with nervous.
I really don't know if the average news flunky understands this about Trump. I'm sure the top guys do but it serves their purposes to pretend to be obtuse.
Anyway it's fun watching them squirm.
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What's in a Name?
Timothy Birdnow
This is the kind of thing that makes me smile. Not sure we want it but just the fact Trump proposed it makes it fun.
Yes, Trump has suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America".
Oh, and Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced a bill to officially change the name.
Granted, if we do that I doubt anyone else in the world will call it by the new name - certainly not the states that border that body of water (like Cuba or whatnot). Also, Mexico will probably rename the Gulf of California in reprisal. But who cares? We have no access to that either.
Which brings up another idea; we should annex Baja California. Purchase it from Mexico and it would become another Florida, a huge vacation destination. Mexico has done nothing with it after all. I'd rather have Baja than Canada, frankly, or even than Greenland.
Another place I'd like to annex is the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia should be willing to sell her; there isn't much there of value to them and we can add it as another state. That would make America span two continents.
Speaking of renaming places, I'm still mad that it's called the Antarctic Peninsula. When I was a kid it was called the Palmer Peninsula, then changed to the American Peninsula. Then, in the globalist fashion, changed to the wholly generic Antarctic Peninsula. Give it a real name, for crying out loud.
I also find myself angry at so many of the other changes we've endured; Bombay is now Mumbai, Peking is Beijing, Ceylon is Sri Lanka, etc. Maybe these are what locals called these places but WE called them by the other names. I want to stick with that. I am also offended at "ArgenTYNES for Argentinians; that was the media not knowing how to say it and choosing that and making it stick (I spell it that way because it's not Argentines by pronounced TYNES by the media.) Oh, and don't even get me started on Mt. McKinley (now Denali).
Changing names and pronunciations is a way to break from the past, something the Left is most eager to do. They do not want continuity. And they've largely succeeded, most young kids would be completely baffled by reading old encyclopedias (like the ones my parents have from the '30's, or the ones from 1912 my parents had in their basement and let get water-logged when their sewer backed up, to my great chagrin.) The one from the thirties speaks of "French West Africa" for example. It also bemoans the rise of dictators in Germany and Italy. The 1912 one was even better, with discussions of things like Africa "There are places in Africa where no white man has yet penetrated". This would sound like alien language to most young people today. We have forgotten our past.
Anyway I doubt this renaming will go anywhere,and I frankly hope it doesn't, but it's fun watching Trump tweak the internationalists and America-haters this way. They should be grateful he's not renaming it "The Gulf of Trump".
MAGA!
This is the kind of thing that makes me smile. Not sure we want it but just the fact Trump proposed it makes it fun.
Yes, Trump has suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America".
Oh, and Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced a bill to officially change the name.
Granted, if we do that I doubt anyone else in the world will call it by the new name - certainly not the states that border that body of water (like Cuba or whatnot). Also, Mexico will probably rename the Gulf of California in reprisal. But who cares? We have no access to that either.
Which brings up another idea; we should annex Baja California. Purchase it from Mexico and it would become another Florida, a huge vacation destination. Mexico has done nothing with it after all. I'd rather have Baja than Canada, frankly, or even than Greenland.
Another place I'd like to annex is the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia should be willing to sell her; there isn't much there of value to them and we can add it as another state. That would make America span two continents.
Speaking of renaming places, I'm still mad that it's called the Antarctic Peninsula. When I was a kid it was called the Palmer Peninsula, then changed to the American Peninsula. Then, in the globalist fashion, changed to the wholly generic Antarctic Peninsula. Give it a real name, for crying out loud.
I also find myself angry at so many of the other changes we've endured; Bombay is now Mumbai, Peking is Beijing, Ceylon is Sri Lanka, etc. Maybe these are what locals called these places but WE called them by the other names. I want to stick with that. I am also offended at "ArgenTYNES for Argentinians; that was the media not knowing how to say it and choosing that and making it stick (I spell it that way because it's not Argentines by pronounced TYNES by the media.) Oh, and don't even get me started on Mt. McKinley (now Denali).
Changing names and pronunciations is a way to break from the past, something the Left is most eager to do. They do not want continuity. And they've largely succeeded, most young kids would be completely baffled by reading old encyclopedias (like the ones my parents have from the '30's, or the ones from 1912 my parents had in their basement and let get water-logged when their sewer backed up, to my great chagrin.) The one from the thirties speaks of "French West Africa" for example. It also bemoans the rise of dictators in Germany and Italy. The 1912 one was even better, with discussions of things like Africa "There are places in Africa where no white man has yet penetrated". This would sound like alien language to most young people today. We have forgotten our past.
Anyway I doubt this renaming will go anywhere,and I frankly hope it doesn't, but it's fun watching Trump tweak the internationalists and America-haters this way. They should be grateful he's not renaming it "The Gulf of Trump".
MAGA!
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The Fires of CA
Timothy Birdnow
California is flaming.
No, I am not talking about San Francisco's gay population. I'm talking L.A., the city of the demons angels.
Wildfires are out of control in America's #2 city, with no apparent end in sight.
Southern California has been battered by ferocious winds with gusts as high as 99 miles per hour. These are the infamous "Santa Ana winds" that bedevil SoCal so frequently and spread wildfires.
Of course the Golden State makes it easy for that to happen; they refuse to remove deadwood from forests out of environmentalist fantasies (believing it's a "pristine forest" but failing to understand "pristine" forests have occasional mass fires) and by refusing to store adequate amounts of water out of environmentalist concernes for snails and bait fish.
And while it will be petroleum that will allow this fire to be put out (by fueling emergency vehicles like fire trucks and running water pumps and the like) the people who brought us these conditions will double down, blaming fossil fuels and "climate change" when in fact it was always terrible public land use and other policies rooted in the superstition of the environmentalist movement.
California sufferes from it's most attractive feature - lots of sunshine. The very thing that draws people means it is fire prone. Most water vapor in the atmosphere settles out in the Sierras, or is drive up north into Oregon and Washington (and tto a lesser extend norther Cal.) Weather in California almost always comes off the Pacific and almost none from North America (unlike the rest of us who get a lot of it from the Gulf of Mexico or from Canada.) Right now we are in La Nina conditions in the Pacific, and La Nino generally causes hot, dry conditions along the Pacific rim, especially in California and in Australia. January is usually California's wettest time, but not this year as La Nina sucks all the moisture towards India and China.
For those who are unaware, La Nina (little girl) is a cooling of the surface waters in the south Pacific off the coast of South America, and it changes the air patterns in the Pacific basin. It's counterpart - La Nina - does the reverse and usually brings bot and we conditions to the basin. The ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) has a profound impact on global climate with effects seen all over the globe, not just in the Western hemisphere.
At any rate the L.A. area was prime for wildfires. And now the region is ablaze.
For all of my SoCal friends, particularly reader Bill, please do be careful and stay safe.
California is flaming.
No, I am not talking about San Francisco's gay population. I'm talking L.A., the city of the demons angels.
Wildfires are out of control in America's #2 city, with no apparent end in sight.
Southern California has been battered by ferocious winds with gusts as high as 99 miles per hour. These are the infamous "Santa Ana winds" that bedevil SoCal so frequently and spread wildfires.
Of course the Golden State makes it easy for that to happen; they refuse to remove deadwood from forests out of environmentalist fantasies (believing it's a "pristine forest" but failing to understand "pristine" forests have occasional mass fires) and by refusing to store adequate amounts of water out of environmentalist concernes for snails and bait fish.
And while it will be petroleum that will allow this fire to be put out (by fueling emergency vehicles like fire trucks and running water pumps and the like) the people who brought us these conditions will double down, blaming fossil fuels and "climate change" when in fact it was always terrible public land use and other policies rooted in the superstition of the environmentalist movement.
California sufferes from it's most attractive feature - lots of sunshine. The very thing that draws people means it is fire prone. Most water vapor in the atmosphere settles out in the Sierras, or is drive up north into Oregon and Washington (and tto a lesser extend norther Cal.) Weather in California almost always comes off the Pacific and almost none from North America (unlike the rest of us who get a lot of it from the Gulf of Mexico or from Canada.) Right now we are in La Nina conditions in the Pacific, and La Nino generally causes hot, dry conditions along the Pacific rim, especially in California and in Australia. January is usually California's wettest time, but not this year as La Nina sucks all the moisture towards India and China.
For those who are unaware, La Nina (little girl) is a cooling of the surface waters in the south Pacific off the coast of South America, and it changes the air patterns in the Pacific basin. It's counterpart - La Nina - does the reverse and usually brings bot and we conditions to the basin. The ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) has a profound impact on global climate with effects seen all over the globe, not just in the Western hemisphere.
At any rate the L.A. area was prime for wildfires. And now the region is ablaze.
For all of my SoCal friends, particularly reader Bill, please do be careful and stay safe.
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Health Nazis Coming for Your Eggs (Again)
Timothy Birdnow
After years of fake news about the health dangers of eating eggs, we have finally reached the place of sanity. Everyone admits eggs are fine.
Only now the Left, never willing to lose a fight, are at it again, trying to say eggs are horrible and you're going to die if you eat them.
I suspect the war on eggs is ultimately like the war on smoking; if they can kill eggs they will move on to meat and milk and eventually get us eating tofu and maybe bugs. It's a wedge issue, methinks. Take out one industry and you can move on from there.
No doubt they also want to hide their own culpability in the exploding price of eggs.
Well, the yokes on them; Americans love eggs and will not be deterred, not by rising prices nor by endless claims of health concerns, concerns which have no smoking gun evidence. (At least with cigarettes there was ample evidence it was terrible for us). The health racket has screwed the pooch, destroyed their own credibility with Covid and other lies they told us. We no longer buy it. They are the boy who cried "wolf!".
So my advice is to eat up on the eggs; eggs benedict, scrambled, fried, poached, however you like 'em. Have a big chunk of ham steak, or a big hunk of bacon (NOT Canadian, but the real America pork belly stuff!) and some fried potatoes. And tell the health Nazis to pound sand.
After years of fake news about the health dangers of eating eggs, we have finally reached the place of sanity. Everyone admits eggs are fine.
Only now the Left, never willing to lose a fight, are at it again, trying to say eggs are horrible and you're going to die if you eat them.
I suspect the war on eggs is ultimately like the war on smoking; if they can kill eggs they will move on to meat and milk and eventually get us eating tofu and maybe bugs. It's a wedge issue, methinks. Take out one industry and you can move on from there.
No doubt they also want to hide their own culpability in the exploding price of eggs.
Well, the yokes on them; Americans love eggs and will not be deterred, not by rising prices nor by endless claims of health concerns, concerns which have no smoking gun evidence. (At least with cigarettes there was ample evidence it was terrible for us). The health racket has screwed the pooch, destroyed their own credibility with Covid and other lies they told us. We no longer buy it. They are the boy who cried "wolf!".
So my advice is to eat up on the eggs; eggs benedict, scrambled, fried, poached, however you like 'em. Have a big chunk of ham steak, or a big hunk of bacon (NOT Canadian, but the real America pork belly stuff!) and some fried potatoes. And tell the health Nazis to pound sand.
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Trump Bringing in New Data centers
Timothy Birdnow
Do we really want massive data centers keeping tabs on us?
President-elect Donald Trump announced a $20 billion foreign investment in new data centers Tuesday
This might be good for business, but at what cost to our privacy and secuity?
We need to be reducing the amount of data on file for everyone, not increasing it.
BTW Whatever happened to that NSA data center in Utah, the one keeping tabs on all Americans?
Do we really want massive data centers keeping tabs on us?
President-elect Donald Trump announced a $20 billion foreign investment in new data centers Tuesday
This might be good for business, but at what cost to our privacy and secuity?
We need to be reducing the amount of data on file for everyone, not increasing it.
BTW Whatever happened to that NSA data center in Utah, the one keeping tabs on all Americans?
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The Addicts
Timothy Birdnow
As you all know I am very hard on Iowa Senator Joni Ernst. But when she gets something right I will praise her. She is getting [/link=https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/07/exclusive-joni-ernst-evicting-washington-bureaucrats/]this one right.
Ernst wants to kick many of the bureacracies out of washington, forcing them to relocate well outside the beltway. She also wants to reduce the amount of "work from home" positions (which are essentially no-show jobs like the mafia uses to milk federal funds from construction projects).
I've long argued the District of Columbia should become a purely symbolic seat of government, that the actual work of government should occur in the states themselves. I would especially like to see Congress move back to their respective home states and face their voters. How many times have we seen guys elected, move to D.C. and never return home? I remember Missouri's own Dick Gephardt, who was the House Minority Leader for the Democrats. He was considered a moderate, pro-life Democrat when he ran for office but as soon as he got a taste of the high life in D.C. he turned into a radical swamp-rat and never looked back. Gephardt left Congress in 2004 and has since been a lobbyist, President and CEO of Gephardt Group. He never returned to Missouri or his home here in South St. Louis (where I live).
We should MAKE them live in their home districts. it can be done with virtual votes in Congress and teleconferencing. Perhaps they can come to D.C. a couple times of year but then they should have to live in barracks-style housing, spartan at best. Make them stay at home and face the people who they supposedly represent.
The party should be over. Now it's one endless party with all sorts of goodies and fun! fun! fun! as they eat, drink, and are merry on the taxpayer dime. That needs to change.
That's why you have to cart these people out in a pine box. Look at McConnell. Look at Pelosi. Look at Biden They are geriatrics who should have long ago taken up the rocking chair. Instead they are running America and doing a terrible job in the process. Nobody wants to voluntarily leave the best gig anyone could ever have.
The legendary S-F writer Arthur C. Clark once wrote a short story about politics and how polital ambition eats the ambitious alive in a wonderful non-science fiction story called Death and the Senator. If you have time I suggest you download it and read it.
In the end what does all that money and power and privilege get you? What does it cost you? When you are on your deathbed it won't matter much that you were a famous Senator who traveled and partied and enjoyed the company of women. You will lie there full of regret at what you didn't do - be there for your family, protect your friends, LOVE people. Your life will largely be in vain.
So it may be a charity to break the cycle for so many who are tethered to Washington. Washington is a drug and the political class, including the bueaucracy, are addicts.
As you all know I am very hard on Iowa Senator Joni Ernst. But when she gets something right I will praise her. She is getting [/link=https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/07/exclusive-joni-ernst-evicting-washington-bureaucrats/]this one right.
Ernst wants to kick many of the bureacracies out of washington, forcing them to relocate well outside the beltway. She also wants to reduce the amount of "work from home" positions (which are essentially no-show jobs like the mafia uses to milk federal funds from construction projects).
I've long argued the District of Columbia should become a purely symbolic seat of government, that the actual work of government should occur in the states themselves. I would especially like to see Congress move back to their respective home states and face their voters. How many times have we seen guys elected, move to D.C. and never return home? I remember Missouri's own Dick Gephardt, who was the House Minority Leader for the Democrats. He was considered a moderate, pro-life Democrat when he ran for office but as soon as he got a taste of the high life in D.C. he turned into a radical swamp-rat and never looked back. Gephardt left Congress in 2004 and has since been a lobbyist, President and CEO of Gephardt Group. He never returned to Missouri or his home here in South St. Louis (where I live).
We should MAKE them live in their home districts. it can be done with virtual votes in Congress and teleconferencing. Perhaps they can come to D.C. a couple times of year but then they should have to live in barracks-style housing, spartan at best. Make them stay at home and face the people who they supposedly represent.
The party should be over. Now it's one endless party with all sorts of goodies and fun! fun! fun! as they eat, drink, and are merry on the taxpayer dime. That needs to change.
That's why you have to cart these people out in a pine box. Look at McConnell. Look at Pelosi. Look at Biden They are geriatrics who should have long ago taken up the rocking chair. Instead they are running America and doing a terrible job in the process. Nobody wants to voluntarily leave the best gig anyone could ever have.
The legendary S-F writer Arthur C. Clark once wrote a short story about politics and how polital ambition eats the ambitious alive in a wonderful non-science fiction story called Death and the Senator. If you have time I suggest you download it and read it.
In the end what does all that money and power and privilege get you? What does it cost you? When you are on your deathbed it won't matter much that you were a famous Senator who traveled and partied and enjoyed the company of women. You will lie there full of regret at what you didn't do - be there for your family, protect your friends, LOVE people. Your life will largely be in vain.
So it may be a charity to break the cycle for so many who are tethered to Washington. Washington is a drug and the political class, including the bueaucracy, are addicts.
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The Same Old Song
Timothy Birdnow
The simple answer is no.
Trump Wants Quick Action on His Agenda—Can Congress Deliver?
The GOP does not have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and John Thune refuses to eliminate it, so everything Trump wants will wind up dying in the "Greatest Deliberative Body on Earth" as it is jawed to death.
The Democrats have shown they aren't going to play ball even now, and I suspect the RINO wing won't either. Trump's riding a headwind at this moment but that won't last, and the Deep State will wait it out and stifle it as they did last time.
I really don't expect much in the way of legislation. Trump is going to have to move his agenda forward with executive orders, alas, and he's going to have to fight tooth-and-nail in federal courts to get it.
This Epoch Times article argues the Republicans can use budget reconciliation, which will mean no filibuster in the Senate. Good luck getting that; the Republican RINO wing isn't going there.
I hope I'm wrong but I am confident in the GOP's ability to SNAFU this whole thing (BTW, for those who do not know snafu was an acronym from the milittary meaning "situation normal, all f%&ked up".) Much as I hope otherwise (hope springs eternal in the human breast) I'm realistic enough to know they are going to resist what Trump wants, but they won't come right out and do it. No; it'll be on the sly, with monkey wrenches thrown into the machinery to gum it up. Trump has to get all this done immediately, while the glow of victory is stillon him and the stink of defeat on his opponents. Last time Trump could have completely routed the Democrats had Mitch McConnell tried to move his agenda - he didn't. I see no reason to believe Thune will do any better.Or even try to do better.
Trump promised to "drain the swamp" but has supported the swamp rats in Congress. Why does he believe he'll fare any better with the same jerks in charge? Why do we?
The simple answer is no.
Trump Wants Quick Action on His Agenda—Can Congress Deliver?
The GOP does not have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and John Thune refuses to eliminate it, so everything Trump wants will wind up dying in the "Greatest Deliberative Body on Earth" as it is jawed to death.
The Democrats have shown they aren't going to play ball even now, and I suspect the RINO wing won't either. Trump's riding a headwind at this moment but that won't last, and the Deep State will wait it out and stifle it as they did last time.
I really don't expect much in the way of legislation. Trump is going to have to move his agenda forward with executive orders, alas, and he's going to have to fight tooth-and-nail in federal courts to get it.
This Epoch Times article argues the Republicans can use budget reconciliation, which will mean no filibuster in the Senate. Good luck getting that; the Republican RINO wing isn't going there.
I hope I'm wrong but I am confident in the GOP's ability to SNAFU this whole thing (BTW, for those who do not know snafu was an acronym from the milittary meaning "situation normal, all f%&ked up".) Much as I hope otherwise (hope springs eternal in the human breast) I'm realistic enough to know they are going to resist what Trump wants, but they won't come right out and do it. No; it'll be on the sly, with monkey wrenches thrown into the machinery to gum it up. Trump has to get all this done immediately, while the glow of victory is stillon him and the stink of defeat on his opponents. Last time Trump could have completely routed the Democrats had Mitch McConnell tried to move his agenda - he didn't. I see no reason to believe Thune will do any better.Or even try to do better.
Trump promised to "drain the swamp" but has supported the swamp rats in Congress. Why does he believe he'll fare any better with the same jerks in charge? Why do we?
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The Dems Vote Against Lakin Reilly Bill
Timothy Birdnow
What about the 159 Democrats who voted against this act? They put foreigners - and their own political power - ahead of protecting innocent Americans.
Full List of Democrats Who Voted for Laken Riley Act - Newsweek
If the Democrats wonder why they lost power they need seek no further for answers. They show here they don't give a damned about native born Americans.
Who in even their wrong mind would oppose a bill allowing the deportation of violent offenders from a country they shouldn't be in in the first place?This is pure evil.
What about the 159 Democrats who voted against this act? They put foreigners - and their own political power - ahead of protecting innocent Americans.
Full List of Democrats Who Voted for Laken Riley Act - Newsweek
If the Democrats wonder why they lost power they need seek no further for answers. They show here they don't give a damned about native born Americans.
Who in even their wrong mind would oppose a bill allowing the deportation of violent offenders from a country they shouldn't be in in the first place?This is pure evil.
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January 07, 2025
Meta Malarkey
Timothy Birdnow
Notice how Zuckerberg has only come to this conclusion AFTER his election inerference has failed spectacularly and he's facing scruttiny by the DOJ and other now-Trump-controlled agencies!
Mark Zuckerberg Promises Less Censorship on Facebook as He Scraps Biased Third-Party ‘Fact Checkers’
Rest assured; he'll find some sneaky backdoor ways to censor. Politifact and the other "third party fact checkers" were only the visible way they did it at Facebook; they had all sorts of sneaky tricks, like shadow-banning and suspensions for all sorts of things up to and including "going too fast" and dropping people down in the feed. It's not going to change; Zuckerberg knew all this was happening and took no steps. Now he's just playing for time.
In point of fact the fact checking had the honesty of at least admitting they were doing it. Granted, if they really wanted an honest fact check they would have paired the liberal fact check with a conservative fact check but they weren't going to do THAT. The real winner there was when they used a fact check site that was owned by Meta in the first place. That used to really cheese off my Facebook friends.
I still favor suing Meta for antitrust. I certainly know I have no trust in them. (Glad you can't throw rotten tomatoes through a computer screen.)
Notice how Zuckerberg has only come to this conclusion AFTER his election inerference has failed spectacularly and he's facing scruttiny by the DOJ and other now-Trump-controlled agencies!
Mark Zuckerberg Promises Less Censorship on Facebook as He Scraps Biased Third-Party ‘Fact Checkers’
Rest assured; he'll find some sneaky backdoor ways to censor. Politifact and the other "third party fact checkers" were only the visible way they did it at Facebook; they had all sorts of sneaky tricks, like shadow-banning and suspensions for all sorts of things up to and including "going too fast" and dropping people down in the feed. It's not going to change; Zuckerberg knew all this was happening and took no steps. Now he's just playing for time.
In point of fact the fact checking had the honesty of at least admitting they were doing it. Granted, if they really wanted an honest fact check they would have paired the liberal fact check with a conservative fact check but they weren't going to do THAT. The real winner there was when they used a fact check site that was owned by Meta in the first place. That used to really cheese off my Facebook friends.
I still favor suing Meta for antitrust. I certainly know I have no trust in them. (Glad you can't throw rotten tomatoes through a computer screen.)
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A Rejection of All Things Woke
Timothy Birdnow
Pretty much hits the nail on the head!
A Re-Declaration of Independence
Pretty much hits the nail on the head!
A Re-Declaration of Independence
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Mr. Smith Leaves from Washington
Timothy Birdnow
Can someone explain to me how Jack Smith is still preparing a "final report" and wants to release it to the media when Judge Aileen Cannon ruled his appointment unconstitutional? Who is paying Smith? Funding his team? If he was illegally appointed he should be forced to pay for all of this out of his own pocket, should he not? And he is going to release privileged and even classified information, information he had no right to possess in the first place.
At least Judge Cannon put a temporary stay on the release of the report until the 11th circuit could rule on whether it can be released.
Part of why Smith wants to do this now is he knows the Biden DOJ will help him do it, and he wants to tarnish Trump's inaugural.He really is a petty, vindictive little man.
Smith needs to be investigated for crimes. He was undoubtedly colluding with the White House, and we know he was colluding with Fani Willis and probably Alvin Bragg as well. And here he blew through $50 million taxpayer dollars to get Trump; at a minimum he should have to pay it all back out of his own pocket. And since his appointment was illegal every single charge brought against every single person involved should be immediately dropped, and the people so charged compensated for their legal fees.
Frankly, I think Smith should be charged with racketeering. What he is doing now can be seen as a kind of blackmail, to tarnish Trump so he doesnt pursue criminal charges. It's disgraceful.
Can someone explain to me how Jack Smith is still preparing a "final report" and wants to release it to the media when Judge Aileen Cannon ruled his appointment unconstitutional? Who is paying Smith? Funding his team? If he was illegally appointed he should be forced to pay for all of this out of his own pocket, should he not? And he is going to release privileged and even classified information, information he had no right to possess in the first place.
At least Judge Cannon put a temporary stay on the release of the report until the 11th circuit could rule on whether it can be released.
Part of why Smith wants to do this now is he knows the Biden DOJ will help him do it, and he wants to tarnish Trump's inaugural.He really is a petty, vindictive little man.
Smith needs to be investigated for crimes. He was undoubtedly colluding with the White House, and we know he was colluding with Fani Willis and probably Alvin Bragg as well. And here he blew through $50 million taxpayer dollars to get Trump; at a minimum he should have to pay it all back out of his own pocket. And since his appointment was illegal every single charge brought against every single person involved should be immediately dropped, and the people so charged compensated for their legal fees.
Frankly, I think Smith should be charged with racketeering. What he is doing now can be seen as a kind of blackmail, to tarnish Trump so he doesnt pursue criminal charges. It's disgraceful.
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The Oily Fingers of Joe Biden
Timothy Birdnow
Why Trump will find it difficult to reverse Biden's EO closing offshore drilling.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-ban-offshore-oil-gas-100551895.html
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OR Trump could get a higher court to reverse the lower court, even if it requires going to the Supreme Court. There is nothing in American jurisprudence that allows an EXECTIVE ORDER to supercede future Pressidential directives. This court had it's headquarters where it's hindquarters should have gone; an executive order cannot have the force of law - it is merely a rule imposed by the President ON THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. We do not have kings in this country.
This court ruling was in 2019, at the outset of the Covid pandemic, and clearly wasn't appealed.
According to the American Bar Association, executive orders are:
It is NOT a law; it is a directive to the President's subordinates on how the exectuve branch will operate. Since so much money is involved, and so much regulatory power in place, eo's have the defacto force of law in our country. But the law mentioned by the media that will bind Trump is no more binding on him than any other law any president has used discretion in enforcing. Certainly Mr. Biden has refused to enforce multiple laws, such as immigration laws, just because he didn't agree with them. Trump has all the authority he needs to restore offshore drilling.
As another website states:
Yet now we're being told Trump cannot repeal Biden's eo. He can do so any time he likes; he's not repealing the LAW but the way the Biden Administration sought to exercise the law.
It was a federal judge in Alaska who issued the ruling in 2019 - the case did not go to the court of appeals. This was a constitutional issue; the court had no jurisdiction over this.
What I suspect is that the media and Biden are trying to set Trump up for another article of impeachment; they want him to tell them to pound sand over this and then accuse him of "willfully violating the law" when in fact he is exercising his legal authority. Prettymuch every corporate media outlet is saying Trump cannot overturn this. And I've not seen any alternative media in a Google or Yahoo search disagreeing (even though I know there are constitutional scholars who are probably shouting about this.)
Oh,btw,why did Biden wait until his last days to pull this? Anybody?
The law in question isthe 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act which the media assures us cannot be contravened by a Presidential eo. But Trump would not be contravening it - he would be exercising his authority and actually obeying the law.
Sooo...the President via his Sec. Interior can at any time grant leases to the highest qualified bidder. Not sure where the "once locked up always locked up" theory comes from except the mind of a leftist judge in Alaska.
The Trump team needs to have a lawsuit ready and sue the Administration in a friendly court so this judge's ruling will be overturned immediatley. It was typical liberal overreach.
Why Trump will find it difficult to reverse Biden's EO closing offshore drilling.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-ban-offshore-oil-gas-100551895.html
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"It's ridiculous. I'll unban it immediately. I will unban it. I have the right to unban it immediately," Trump said in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt radio program.
During his term, Biden also limited new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters, drawing criticism from drilling states and companies.
But the Lands Act, which allows presidents to withdraw areas from mineral leasing and drilling, does not grant them the legal authority to overturn prior bans, according to a 2019 court ruling - meaning a reversal would likely require an act of Congress. That order came in response to Trump's effort to reverse Arctic and Atlantic Ocean withdrawals made by former President Barack Obama at the end of his presidency.
Trump also used the Lands Act to ban sales of offshore drilling rights in the eastern Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida through 2032. Biden's decision will protect the same area with no expiration.
It is unclear whether lawmakers would support reversing Biden's decision to protect these waters.
During his term, Biden also limited new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters, drawing criticism from drilling states and companies.
But the Lands Act, which allows presidents to withdraw areas from mineral leasing and drilling, does not grant them the legal authority to overturn prior bans, according to a 2019 court ruling - meaning a reversal would likely require an act of Congress. That order came in response to Trump's effort to reverse Arctic and Atlantic Ocean withdrawals made by former President Barack Obama at the end of his presidency.
Trump also used the Lands Act to ban sales of offshore drilling rights in the eastern Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida through 2032. Biden's decision will protect the same area with no expiration.
It is unclear whether lawmakers would support reversing Biden's decision to protect these waters.
OR Trump could get a higher court to reverse the lower court, even if it requires going to the Supreme Court. There is nothing in American jurisprudence that allows an EXECTIVE ORDER to supercede future Pressidential directives. This court had it's headquarters where it's hindquarters should have gone; an executive order cannot have the force of law - it is merely a rule imposed by the President ON THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. We do not have kings in this country.
This court ruling was in 2019, at the outset of the Covid pandemic, and clearly wasn't appealed.
According to the American Bar Association, executive orders are:
" a signed, written, and published directive from the President of the United States that manages operations of the federal government."
It is NOT a law; it is a directive to the President's subordinates on how the exectuve branch will operate. Since so much money is involved, and so much regulatory power in place, eo's have the defacto force of law in our country. But the law mentioned by the media that will bind Trump is no more binding on him than any other law any president has used discretion in enforcing. Certainly Mr. Biden has refused to enforce multiple laws, such as immigration laws, just because he didn't agree with them. Trump has all the authority he needs to restore offshore drilling.
As another website states:
" The executive actions outlined above can often occur quite quickly because every president is free to repeal or modify any executive order"
Yet now we're being told Trump cannot repeal Biden's eo. He can do so any time he likes; he's not repealing the LAW but the way the Biden Administration sought to exercise the law.
It was a federal judge in Alaska who issued the ruling in 2019 - the case did not go to the court of appeals. This was a constitutional issue; the court had no jurisdiction over this.
What I suspect is that the media and Biden are trying to set Trump up for another article of impeachment; they want him to tell them to pound sand over this and then accuse him of "willfully violating the law" when in fact he is exercising his legal authority. Prettymuch every corporate media outlet is saying Trump cannot overturn this. And I've not seen any alternative media in a Google or Yahoo search disagreeing (even though I know there are constitutional scholars who are probably shouting about this.)
Oh,btw,why did Biden wait until his last days to pull this? Anybody?
The law in question isthe 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act which the media assures us cannot be contravened by a Presidential eo. But Trump would not be contravening it - he would be exercising his authority and actually obeying the law.
"The Act empowers the Secretary to grant leases to the highest qualified responsible bidder on the basis of sealed competitive bids and to formulate regulations"
Sooo...the President via his Sec. Interior can at any time grant leases to the highest qualified bidder. Not sure where the "once locked up always locked up" theory comes from except the mind of a leftist judge in Alaska.
The Trump team needs to have a lawsuit ready and sue the Administration in a friendly court so this judge's ruling will be overturned immediatley. It was typical liberal overreach.
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Pope Francis the Apostate
Timothy Birdnow
I guess Pope Francis doesn't remember 1Ttimothy 2:12
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office
Paul admonishes Timothy:
"I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. "
He elaborates:
"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church."
Also:
"Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness."
Then there is 1Corinthians 14:34:
"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says."
And 1Timothy 13-14:
"For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor."
How about Isaiah 3:12:
"My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths."
I would add Jesus chose only men for leadership positions, despite having some very faithful female followers.
Paul said men and women were equal and indeed they are - but not the same and have different roles. Nobody would argue a single father makes a better parent than a mother (assuming both are of equal competency and love their children equally); men just aren't as good at the things a mother provides. Ditto women, who cannot provide the male role model children need. But together they make a strong family.
And while there were a few notable exceptions to the "women shouldn't lead" beliefs in the Bible, notably in the Old Testament, the fact is the Bible is quite concrete about the matter and when viewed as a whole women were not supposed to be in leadership positions in the Bible. You can argue with me all you like but it is of little account; this isn't my view but the Word of God.
So Franicis is just dismissing the Word of God to please modern society and make the Church comport with modern sensibilities. How have those sensibilities worked out thus far? How many broken homes, depressed children, deadbeat fathers, overworked mothers, are around now? How much spiritual darkness? The world didn't have these moral and spiritual plagues in any mamor fashion as we do now, like transgenderism or rampant homosexuality. Yes, they were always there to a degree (Man is a sinner and inherently evil) but they didn't stalk our children as now. THAT is the fruit of what Francis is trying to institutionalize.
This brings to mind Revelation9: 7-10
"The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like human faces.
They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.
They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months."
So we are looking at girly-men or masculinized women types who devour like locusts and who carry stings which cause pain to the inhabitants of the Earth. Sounds like the modern era to me.
In 2Timothy 1-5 we learn:
"2 Timothy 3.1-5
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”
Sound familiar? These are the fruits of the Progressive project, and the end result of the breaking down of traditional sexual roles. And does not Pope Francis "have a form of godliness but deny it'spower"? He is all hat and no cattle.
In 2Peter 3: 3-4 we learn:
"Above all, you must understand that in the last days, scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.””
And indeed scoffers sneer at the Word of God and insist their way is better even when we have objective evidence their way brings pain and suffering and death. And Pope Francis is right in there promoting such.
BTW the woman put in charge is a nun and will be the boss of all religious orders. Anyone who has ever dealt with nuns knows they are an officious, bureacratic lot and most of them are hopelessly passive-aggressive. Now all religious orders will become full of snark and anyone who doesn't toe the line will be rapped with a metaphorical ruler.
Francis is apostate and is threatening to cause a schism in the Church by overturning fundamental principles, Biblical principles. But then, the Catholic Church always believed a Pope would wind up bveing the false prophet mentioned in Revelation. Is Francis that false prophet?
I guess Pope Francis doesn't remember 1Ttimothy 2:12
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office
Paul admonishes Timothy:
"I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. "
He elaborates:
"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church."
Also:
"Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness."
Then there is 1Corinthians 14:34:
"The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says."
And 1Timothy 13-14:
"For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor."
How about Isaiah 3:12:
"My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths."
I would add Jesus chose only men for leadership positions, despite having some very faithful female followers.
Paul said men and women were equal and indeed they are - but not the same and have different roles. Nobody would argue a single father makes a better parent than a mother (assuming both are of equal competency and love their children equally); men just aren't as good at the things a mother provides. Ditto women, who cannot provide the male role model children need. But together they make a strong family.
And while there were a few notable exceptions to the "women shouldn't lead" beliefs in the Bible, notably in the Old Testament, the fact is the Bible is quite concrete about the matter and when viewed as a whole women were not supposed to be in leadership positions in the Bible. You can argue with me all you like but it is of little account; this isn't my view but the Word of God.
So Franicis is just dismissing the Word of God to please modern society and make the Church comport with modern sensibilities. How have those sensibilities worked out thus far? How many broken homes, depressed children, deadbeat fathers, overworked mothers, are around now? How much spiritual darkness? The world didn't have these moral and spiritual plagues in any mamor fashion as we do now, like transgenderism or rampant homosexuality. Yes, they were always there to a degree (Man is a sinner and inherently evil) but they didn't stalk our children as now. THAT is the fruit of what Francis is trying to institutionalize.
This brings to mind Revelation9: 7-10
"The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like human faces.
They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.
They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months."
So we are looking at girly-men or masculinized women types who devour like locusts and who carry stings which cause pain to the inhabitants of the Earth. Sounds like the modern era to me.
In 2Timothy 1-5 we learn:
"2 Timothy 3.1-5
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”
Sound familiar? These are the fruits of the Progressive project, and the end result of the breaking down of traditional sexual roles. And does not Pope Francis "have a form of godliness but deny it'spower"? He is all hat and no cattle.
In 2Peter 3: 3-4 we learn:
"Above all, you must understand that in the last days, scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.””
And indeed scoffers sneer at the Word of God and insist their way is better even when we have objective evidence their way brings pain and suffering and death. And Pope Francis is right in there promoting such.
BTW the woman put in charge is a nun and will be the boss of all religious orders. Anyone who has ever dealt with nuns knows they are an officious, bureacratic lot and most of them are hopelessly passive-aggressive. Now all religious orders will become full of snark and anyone who doesn't toe the line will be rapped with a metaphorical ruler.
Francis is apostate and is threatening to cause a schism in the Church by overturning fundamental principles, Biblical principles. But then, the Catholic Church always believed a Pope would wind up bveing the false prophet mentioned in Revelation. Is Francis that false prophet?
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French Toast
Timothy Birdnow
Jean Marie Le Pen has passed away just as the French government is falling and the coalition that has been in power with Macron as the head is about to fall.
Makes one wonder, doesn't it.
Le Pen was the face of the resistance to the radical agenda of the internationalists and socialists in France. How convenient he's is gone now.
(No, I don't think he was poisoned; he was 96 after all, but I don't think the French government will shed any tears. And who knows; maybe he was "helped along" after all.)
Since this is a BBC article it uses abusive and inaccurate terms for Mr. Le Pen, calling him a "bigot" and "holocaust denier" and other such pejoratives. Some MAY be true, but most are just an expression of the disgust the Left had for him, as he was the man who created the true opposition to them in France.
In other news of the French right, Nicolas Sarkozy, former French President, goes on trialfor allegedly taking money from former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi in what is clearly a case of lawfare by his enemies.
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Does this sound familiar? It sounds very much like what they've been doing to Trump over the last few years (or Bolsinaro in Brazil, or insert name here where any anti-establishement type has won power.)
This is what they will do to Trump if they retake power from the MAGA movement in '28. It will be one charge after another until they put him in prison; the Ruling Class cannot afford to let anyone get away with bucking them in this manner, and that is whether in France or Brazil or the U.S.
Trump should offer sanctuary to Sarkozyin the United States.
The New World Order is not going down without a fight. That'swhy I do wonder about the death of La Pen; like Trotsky it doesn't matter how long someone has been gone or how old they are - they will eventually meet the vengence of the Rulers. Even the Mafia holds less of a grudge.
Jean Marie Le Pen has passed away just as the French government is falling and the coalition that has been in power with Macron as the head is about to fall.
Makes one wonder, doesn't it.
Le Pen was the face of the resistance to the radical agenda of the internationalists and socialists in France. How convenient he's is gone now.
(No, I don't think he was poisoned; he was 96 after all, but I don't think the French government will shed any tears. And who knows; maybe he was "helped along" after all.)
Since this is a BBC article it uses abusive and inaccurate terms for Mr. Le Pen, calling him a "bigot" and "holocaust denier" and other such pejoratives. Some MAY be true, but most are just an expression of the disgust the Left had for him, as he was the man who created the true opposition to them in France.
In other news of the French right, Nicolas Sarkozy, former French President, goes on trialfor allegedly taking money from former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi in what is clearly a case of lawfare by his enemies.
FTA:
"In exchange, the prosecution alleges Sarkozy promised to help Gaddafi combat his reputation as a pariah with Western countries.
Sarkozy, 69, was the president of France from 2007 to 2012.
He has always denied the charges, saying they were brought against him by people with motivations to bring him down.
The investigation was opened in 2013, two years after Saif al-Islam, son of the then-Libyan leader, first accused Sarkozy of taking millions of his father's money for campaign funding.
The following year, Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine - who for a long time acted as a middleman between France and the Middle East - said he had written proof that Sarkozy's campaign bid was "abundantly" financed by Tripoli, and that the €50m (£43m) worth of payments continued after he became president.
Twelve other people - accused of devising the pact with Gaddafi - are standing trial along Sarkozy. They all deny the charges.
Sarkozy's wife, Italian-born former supermodel and singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, was charged last year with hiding evidence linked to the Gaddafi case and associating with wrongdoers to commit fraud, both of which she denies.
Since losing his re-election bid in 2012, Sarkozy has been targeted by several criminal investigations.
He also appealed against a February 2024 ruling which found him guilty of overspending on his 2012 re-election campaign, then hiring a PR firm to cover it up. He was handed a one-year sentence, of which six months were suspended.
In 2021, he was found guilty of trying to bribe a judge in 2014 and became the first former French president to get a custodial sentence. In December, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag instead of going to jail.
Sarkozy was not wearing the tag as he arrived in court in Paris on Monday morning.
However, that is only because the details of that sentence have yet to be worked out.
It is likely that in the course of this three-month trial over the so-called Libya connection, the former president will appear wearing the device.
The trial is set to continue until 10 April. If found guilty, Sarkozy faces up to 10 years in prison. "
Sarkozy, 69, was the president of France from 2007 to 2012.
He has always denied the charges, saying they were brought against him by people with motivations to bring him down.
The investigation was opened in 2013, two years after Saif al-Islam, son of the then-Libyan leader, first accused Sarkozy of taking millions of his father's money for campaign funding.
The following year, Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine - who for a long time acted as a middleman between France and the Middle East - said he had written proof that Sarkozy's campaign bid was "abundantly" financed by Tripoli, and that the €50m (£43m) worth of payments continued after he became president.
Twelve other people - accused of devising the pact with Gaddafi - are standing trial along Sarkozy. They all deny the charges.
Sarkozy's wife, Italian-born former supermodel and singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, was charged last year with hiding evidence linked to the Gaddafi case and associating with wrongdoers to commit fraud, both of which she denies.
Since losing his re-election bid in 2012, Sarkozy has been targeted by several criminal investigations.
He also appealed against a February 2024 ruling which found him guilty of overspending on his 2012 re-election campaign, then hiring a PR firm to cover it up. He was handed a one-year sentence, of which six months were suspended.
In 2021, he was found guilty of trying to bribe a judge in 2014 and became the first former French president to get a custodial sentence. In December, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag instead of going to jail.
Sarkozy was not wearing the tag as he arrived in court in Paris on Monday morning.
However, that is only because the details of that sentence have yet to be worked out.
It is likely that in the course of this three-month trial over the so-called Libya connection, the former president will appear wearing the device.
The trial is set to continue until 10 April. If found guilty, Sarkozy faces up to 10 years in prison. "
Does this sound familiar? It sounds very much like what they've been doing to Trump over the last few years (or Bolsinaro in Brazil, or insert name here where any anti-establishement type has won power.)
This is what they will do to Trump if they retake power from the MAGA movement in '28. It will be one charge after another until they put him in prison; the Ruling Class cannot afford to let anyone get away with bucking them in this manner, and that is whether in France or Brazil or the U.S.
Trump should offer sanctuary to Sarkozyin the United States.
The New World Order is not going down without a fight. That'swhy I do wonder about the death of La Pen; like Trotsky it doesn't matter how long someone has been gone or how old they are - they will eventually meet the vengence of the Rulers. Even the Mafia holds less of a grudge.
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Lies About Gaetz
Timothy Birdnow
Uh huh!
Pelosi's 'House Ethics Committee' Caught in Multiple Staggering Lies in Gaetz Report
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Read tthe whole thing.
Uh huh!
Pelosi's 'House Ethics Committee' Caught in Multiple Staggering Lies in Gaetz Report
FTA:
"The letter was first reported by Marc Caputo of NeverTrump outlet The Bulwark, but Hemingway noted how it dovetailed with numerous other issues with the report.
"At the outset, I’ll note the release of your committee’s report is bizarre, Congressman Gaetz is no longer subject to your jurisdiction, and the precedential effect of the release of this report cannot be overstated,” a lawyer for Chris Dorworth, the man mentioned, wrote in a letter to House Ethics Committee chair Rep. Michael Guest, a Mississippi Republican.
The letter went on to list "three demonstrably false statements within your report” regarding Dorworth.
The first involved a mention that "Mr. Dorworth believed that Representative Gaetz invited people to his home on the evening of July 15, 2017.” This evening was critical, inasmuch as the most problematic allegation in the report — that Gaetz paid to have sex with a minor — happened on that night at Dorworth’s home.
"No, Mr. Dorworth did not and has never believed that Representative Gaetz invited people to his house on July 15, 2017,” the letter stated.
"To support your claim that Gaetz ‘invited’ people to my client’s home, you cite, in footnote 97, a gate log that doesn’t include Gaetz’s name on it and reference an affidavit and deposition transcripts that say nothing about Gaetz inviting anyone to my client’s home.” [Emphasis theirs.]
Furthermore, the letter stated, "Mr. Dorworth’s deposition transcript does not support this statement in your report, and it should be retracted immediately.”
Again, this basically undermines the most serious allegation completely, inasmuch as the Ethics Committee’s report relies upon Dorworth’s memories of that evening and the fact that he lived in a complex where "non-residents are required to present a driver’s license before entering, and entry records are maintained.”
If those entry records don’t have Gaetz’s name on them, they were either 1) tampered with, or 2) the preponderance of the evidence regarding the allegation shifts radically.
The second discrepancy also involves that allegation, noting that "Mr. Dorworth was deposed and confronted with cell phone records showing that he was in fact at his residence during the party.”
"As an attendee at Mr. Dorworth’s deposition, I can assure you he was never ‘confronted with any cell phone records,” adding that the records "were deemed ‘Attorneys Eyes Only’ at the time of Mr. Dorworth’s deposition” and that he was "mortified that the Committee on Ethics would include such a ridiculous conclusion” in its report.
The third alleged discrepancy, later in the same paragraph: "The Committee requested, through counsel, that Mr. Dorworth clarify his testimony regarding his whereabouts on the evening of July 15, 2017; his counsel did not respond.”
His counsel, being the author of this letter, noted that he did, saying he emailed the staff on Sept. 6 of this year.
"Interesting. The House ‘Ethics’ Committee is caught here just flat out lying about three things in its report on Matt Gaetz. (In addition to all the other alleged falsehoods),” Hemingway noted in an X repost of the letter:
Interesting. The House "Ethics” Committee is caught here just flat out lying about three things in its report on Matt Gaetz. (In addition to all the other alleged falsehoods) https://t.co/OwYyBRZS8F
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 24, 2024
Again, it’s difficult to overstate how damning serious mistakes in this part of the report would be, particularly given the decision to release it absent any real reason to do so; without substantial evidence that Gaetz paid to have sex with a minor, what you have is essentially a log of someone’s alleged substance use disorder and/or dysfunctional sex life the better part of a decade ago.
And again, this isn’t the only issue with the report. As Hemingway noted in a November article, "the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz” are the two witnesses whose credibility issues led the Department of Justice to drop its investigation of Gaetz in 2022."
"At the outset, I’ll note the release of your committee’s report is bizarre, Congressman Gaetz is no longer subject to your jurisdiction, and the precedential effect of the release of this report cannot be overstated,” a lawyer for Chris Dorworth, the man mentioned, wrote in a letter to House Ethics Committee chair Rep. Michael Guest, a Mississippi Republican.
The letter went on to list "three demonstrably false statements within your report” regarding Dorworth.
The first involved a mention that "Mr. Dorworth believed that Representative Gaetz invited people to his home on the evening of July 15, 2017.” This evening was critical, inasmuch as the most problematic allegation in the report — that Gaetz paid to have sex with a minor — happened on that night at Dorworth’s home.
"No, Mr. Dorworth did not and has never believed that Representative Gaetz invited people to his house on July 15, 2017,” the letter stated.
"To support your claim that Gaetz ‘invited’ people to my client’s home, you cite, in footnote 97, a gate log that doesn’t include Gaetz’s name on it and reference an affidavit and deposition transcripts that say nothing about Gaetz inviting anyone to my client’s home.” [Emphasis theirs.]
Furthermore, the letter stated, "Mr. Dorworth’s deposition transcript does not support this statement in your report, and it should be retracted immediately.”
Again, this basically undermines the most serious allegation completely, inasmuch as the Ethics Committee’s report relies upon Dorworth’s memories of that evening and the fact that he lived in a complex where "non-residents are required to present a driver’s license before entering, and entry records are maintained.”
If those entry records don’t have Gaetz’s name on them, they were either 1) tampered with, or 2) the preponderance of the evidence regarding the allegation shifts radically.
The second discrepancy also involves that allegation, noting that "Mr. Dorworth was deposed and confronted with cell phone records showing that he was in fact at his residence during the party.”
"As an attendee at Mr. Dorworth’s deposition, I can assure you he was never ‘confronted with any cell phone records,” adding that the records "were deemed ‘Attorneys Eyes Only’ at the time of Mr. Dorworth’s deposition” and that he was "mortified that the Committee on Ethics would include such a ridiculous conclusion” in its report.
The third alleged discrepancy, later in the same paragraph: "The Committee requested, through counsel, that Mr. Dorworth clarify his testimony regarding his whereabouts on the evening of July 15, 2017; his counsel did not respond.”
His counsel, being the author of this letter, noted that he did, saying he emailed the staff on Sept. 6 of this year.
"Interesting. The House ‘Ethics’ Committee is caught here just flat out lying about three things in its report on Matt Gaetz. (In addition to all the other alleged falsehoods),” Hemingway noted in an X repost of the letter:
Interesting. The House "Ethics” Committee is caught here just flat out lying about three things in its report on Matt Gaetz. (In addition to all the other alleged falsehoods) https://t.co/OwYyBRZS8F
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 24, 2024
Again, it’s difficult to overstate how damning serious mistakes in this part of the report would be, particularly given the decision to release it absent any real reason to do so; without substantial evidence that Gaetz paid to have sex with a minor, what you have is essentially a log of someone’s alleged substance use disorder and/or dysfunctional sex life the better part of a decade ago.
And again, this isn’t the only issue with the report. As Hemingway noted in a November article, "the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz” are the two witnesses whose credibility issues led the Department of Justice to drop its investigation of Gaetz in 2022."
Read tthe whole thing.
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Pelosi - Women More Ethical Than Men
Timothy Birdnow
Pelosi claims women are "more ethical" than men and it's just abuse to call them out. In an interview with Face the Nation Pelosi, commenting on the trouble she's had with detractors over the years, stated:
Oh?
Guess Nancy forgot about her own multiple ethical lapses like this. Pelosi has always been crooked. She steered the redevelopment of the Presidio in San Francisco, for instance to a company owned by her husband (her son was on the committee that made the recommendation). She has lied multiple times about serious matters and done so on the record. She is as unethical as they come.
Yet she's a piker next to Hillary Clinton.
Cognitive dissonance is ripe in Nan's aged brain, alas.
Pelosi claims women are "more ethical" than men and it's just abuse to call them out. In an interview with Face the Nation Pelosi, commenting on the trouble she's had with detractors over the years, stated:
"I mean, I know that it has. But I hope that it will not, that we will have — shine a bright light on this and just say, this is unacceptable. This is unacceptable. See, for women, they always — they always — women are known to be more, shall we say, ethical than men. And so, when they go after women candidates, they go after their ethics."
Oh?
Guess Nancy forgot about her own multiple ethical lapses like this. Pelosi has always been crooked. She steered the redevelopment of the Presidio in San Francisco, for instance to a company owned by her husband (her son was on the committee that made the recommendation). She has lied multiple times about serious matters and done so on the record. She is as unethical as they come.
Yet she's a piker next to Hillary Clinton.
Cognitive dissonance is ripe in Nan's aged brain, alas.
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Ain't No Sunshine Where She's Gone
Timothy Birdnow
I would say Sunny Hostin has gone mad but she was already quite loonie tunes before this. She's just doubled down on her insanity.
Sunny Hostin compares Jan. 6 rioting to slavery and the Holocaust in unhinged rant on 'The View'
In any other endeavor if an employee began spouting off angry diatribes at odds with reality they would be let go from their jobs and urged to seek psychiatric help. But in the media it's a resume' enhancement.
The woman needs a straightjacket and padded living accomodations.
I would say Sunny Hostin has gone mad but she was already quite loonie tunes before this. She's just doubled down on her insanity.
Sunny Hostin compares Jan. 6 rioting to slavery and the Holocaust in unhinged rant on 'The View'
In any other endeavor if an employee began spouting off angry diatribes at odds with reality they would be let go from their jobs and urged to seek psychiatric help. But in the media it's a resume' enhancement.
The woman needs a straightjacket and padded living accomodations.
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Biden Releasing Terrorists
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Biden is releasing 11 terrorists from Gitmo and "resettling" them in Oman.
His parting gift to America. Only the worst of the worst resided in Guantanamo.
Biden sure is a nasty sob.
Biden is releasing 11 terrorists from Gitmo and "resettling" them in Oman.
His parting gift to America. Only the worst of the worst resided in Guantanamo.
Biden sure is a nasty sob.
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January 06, 2025
A Coup All Along
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an article arguing what many of us have, that Covid was a political coup all along.
Exclusive — Dr. Andrew Huff: Coronavirus Timeline ‘Giant Scandal to Subvert’ Trump
Here is an article arguing what many of us have, that Covid was a political coup all along.
Exclusive — Dr. Andrew Huff: Coronavirus Timeline ‘Giant Scandal to Subvert’ Trump
Officials knew about the coronavirus breakout in the fall of 2019 — sooner than they claim — and the biotechnology used to create the virus developed in the U.S. and was then exported to China, Dr. Andrew Huff, author of The Truth About Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History, said on Breitbart News Saturday.
Huff walked through some of the revelations, stating that "when you really boil this down, most of the biotechnology, or the advanced technology that was used to engineer SARS-CoV-2, was developed in the United States – primarily at the University of North Carolina with Dr. Ralph Baric – and illegally exported to the Chinese.”
Huff walked through some of the revelations, stating that "when you really boil this down, most of the biotechnology, or the advanced technology that was used to engineer SARS-CoV-2, was developed in the United States – primarily at the University of North Carolina with Dr. Ralph Baric – and illegally exported to the Chinese.”
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